Trickydick:
Own Account Driver:
Trickydick:
Used to wrok at Daf dealer and if there was an mot failure the operator would be on the phone doing their nut as it went against them.If the dealer’s got an ATF lane there and the vehicles gone into them for prep a fail is pretty ■■■■ inexcusable though in my opinion.
No atf lane, biggest issue with trucks is always the brakes, drum brakes being the most tempremental, you can brake test it prior to inspectiom, do the work, load it up and brake test it again laoded, take it for test and fail on brakes, this has happened many a time and always with drum brakes.
Plus of course every tester has a different oidea f whats worn and whats fubared.
How very true, it is so easy to have a problem on the test lane. The brake rollers can easily damage the tyre tread when the wheel locks up. The customer had not brought the vehicle in for its brake reline after its last inspection and one is forced to present it with new linings. The load imposed on the axle is over 65% of the axle weight but not quite enough to get the required efficiency. Probably one of the more aggravating ones is an air leak discovered only because there is almost total silence on the test lane, while there has always been so much background noise in any large workshop. Then there are silly things when a vehicle has passed for the last ten years with a reflector one inch out of position and is now suddenly failed.
Finally there are those who don’t have the balls to argue a point which they know is correct. The old guard of knowledgeable testers are slowly retiring and being replaced with one week course wonders.